ganler commented on pull request #8706:
URL: https://github.com/apache/tvm/pull/8706#issuecomment-897311045


   @YuchenJin Good question to discuss. 
   
   As I said a more thorough fix would be supporting `CastNode` in constant 
folding, but it can be tricky. In this PR, I only made a safe change by casting 
lower-bit `uint` constant value to higher-bit `int`. 
   
   However, when we have, say `int32` and `uint32`, the question is that how 
should we perform casting? i.e., what is the logic of `op(int32(lhs), 
uint32(rhs))`? In TVM, we will cast all types to a signed integer with maximum 
bits (regarding the operands). i.e., `op(int32(lhs), int32(uint32(rhs)))`. But 
here, `int32(uint32(rhs))` is not `IntImm` but `CastNode`... Then your question 
would be: shall we directly convert evaluate the `CastNode` during casting (all 
so need to change the value of `IntImm`).
   
   
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/38074777/129131777-4b4c88db-4c85-4eaa-a4aa-e34fd5995373.png)
   
   


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